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Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco
Topics: Hancock County Jail Residents Art Exhibit and other projects, upcoming July 1st Peace and Pro-Impeachment Rally near Bush’s Kennebunkport, Maine meeting with Vladmir Putin

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Producer/host: Amy Browne

Guests: Stacie Jacques and Amy Hutchinson

Topic: Aerial spraying of chemicals on blueberry fields in Maine communities raises health concerns

FMI:

Maine Committee for Alternatives to Pesticide Spraying: [email protected] or 207-326-9240

Toxics Action Center: toxicsaction.org or 207-871-1810

Board of Pesticide Control: Director Henry Jennings, [email protected] , www.maine.gov/agriculture/pesticides 28 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0028 (July meeting: July 27th, 9:30 a.m., location to be determined)

Pesticide Drift Stakeholders Committee, Lebelle Hicks, 207-287-7594, [email protected] (Next meeting is July 9th, 9:30 a.m. at Penobscot County Cooperative Extension Office, 307 Maine Avenue, Bangor)

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Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Topics: An update on the Green Scare sentencing from Attorney Lynne Williams, Interviews about the ban on the toxic flame retardant “deca”, with members of the Learning Disabilities Association of Maine and the Natural Resources Council of Maine

FMI: www.greenscare.org, www.portland.indymedia.org, www.nrcm.org

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Producers/hosts: Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco
Contributor: Eric Herter

Topic: David Swanson, founder of www.afterdowningstreet.org , speaking about impeachment of Bush and Cheney, at an event in Portland, Maine on April 28th, 2007
Recorded by Eric Herter

FMI: www.maineimpeach.org , www.afterdowningstreet.org , www.mainepeoplesalliance.org , www.kuchinich.house.gov

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Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Topic: Immigration and ICE raids in New Bedford, Mass.

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Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Topic: The State and Local Government Sweat Free Consortium. In March 2007, at a meeting in Harrisburg, PA, state and local governments came closers to consolidating their purchasing power to prevent tax dollars from support sweatshop labor in the garment industry. Today we bring you some of the speakers from that meeting: Representatives from the state of PA, the city of San Francisco, a union garment worker, and Maine’s own Bjorn Skorpen Claeson, the Director of Sweatfree Communities

FMI: www.sweatfree.org or 207-262-7277

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Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Topics: Interviews with Daryl DeJoy and Cecil Gray about the proposed ban on bear trapping in Maine (the last state that allows the practice), and with Jack McKay of Food and Medicine, about the impact of recent Circuit City firings on local employees, the Employee Free Choice Act, and the organization’s annual May Day celebration.

FMI:

www.wildlifealliancemaine.org

www.foodandmedicine.org

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Producers/hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne
Contributor: Carolyn Coe

Topics: Project Occupation was back in Bangor today urging Senator Susan Collins to stop funding the occupation of Iraq. Meanwhile in the nearby courthouse, arraignments were taking place for some of the activists arrested at the March protest at the Senator’s office. Also, an update on impeachment efforts. FMI: www.maineimpeach.org
Also, an interview with Julie Beckford of Rebel Hill Farm–grower of the plants sold in the annual PICA (Peace thru InterAmerican Community Action) fund-raiser, taking place now. FMI: www.pica.ws

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